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READ MORE: Bionic Clothing 101: As Explained by ChatGPTChatGPT. It’s everywhere. We talked about it in a recent blog post, but of late it’s coming up in places ranging from the holiday dinner table to the Super Bowl advertising slate. Last year on the CIONIC blog, I talked about how healthcare was joining the Big Game, marking a shift in the conversation away from traditional…
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READ MORE: Meet the CIONIC Scientific Advisory BoardToday we announced the formation of the CIONIC Scientific Advisory Board. We are fortunate to have such an incredible group of physicians and scientists join us in our mission to help people with mobility differences live more freely and independently. In the coming weeks, we’ll share deeper profiles of our SAB members individually, but wanted…
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READ MORE: CIONIC Stories: Ben on X-ALD, the Neural Sleeve, and AutonomyMy diagnosis came down like the guillotine: x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. A long name, which sounded ominous. I remembered watching the film “Lorenzo’s Oil” when it came out in theaters. It told the true story of a boy falling into a vegetative state from the disease. I read the entry on Wikipedia, which spoke grimly of a…
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READ MORE: Superpowering the Human Body: Episode 7The seventh episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Dr. Phillip Alvelda, CEO/Chairman of Medio Labs and CEO of Brainworks. Dr. Alvelda is a technology and industry innovator as well as an educator. He was a Program Manager at DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office where he developed national scale R&D programs…
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READ MORE: Talking Hardware Engineering at CIONICMeet Mihai Ionescu, Head of Hardware at CIONIC A graduate of UC Santa Cruz (BS Computer Engineering ‘99), he has spent his career in hardware design and high-volume manufacturing where he was at the nexus of innovation in engineering and design. In his role at CIONIC, Mihai has a multi-faceted responsibility that includes product specs…
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READ MORE: A World Beyond Disability: What Inspired CIONIC’s MissionHow my daughter’s CP diagnosis fueled a mission to empower all those with mobility impairments to move more freely. Anyone who has met my daughter Sofia knows her as intelligent, joyful, and kind. She is an inventor, an artist, a ballerina, and skier. And she is one of over 1 million Americans living with Cerebral…
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READ MORE: Superpowering the Human Body: Episode 5The fifth episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Industrial Designer, Daniel Zarem. Daniel shares with us his passion and process for designing products to augment human function. We discuss how advances in materials, sensing, ML, and manufacturing are accelerating a future of highly personalized solutions. Watch on YouTube The full transcript…
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READ MORE: Superpowering the Human Body: Episode 4The fourth episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Dr. Stacy Menz, Physical Therapist and Founder of Starfish Therapies, an interdisciplinary pediatric therapy group. Stacy shares with us her approach to patient engagement through goal centered play, the successes and challenges of telehealth, and the shifting norms of inclusivity. Watch on Youtube…
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READ MORE: Superpowering the Human Body: Episode 3The third episode of CIONIC’s podcast Superpowering the Human Body, features a conversation with Shriya Srinivasan, Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Langer Traverso Labs. Shriya shares with us her incredible work to restore sensation and mobility to individuals with limb amputations, through optogenetics and advanced prosthetics. We also discuss how design thinking and collaboration between academia and…
